Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) , the son of a poor Spanish surgeon, achieved enormous success with the publication of the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. John Rutherford is a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, where he teaches Spanish and Spanish-American language and literature. Roberto Gonz&aacutelez Echevarr&iacuteais Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale.